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Thread #131514 Message #2967695
Posted By: TheSnail
18-Aug-10 - 05:15 AM
Thread Name: Review: BBC Folk Programming Lacks German Folk
Subject: RE: Review: BBC Folk Programming Lacks German Folk
Not really anything to do with the question (it's a Conrad thread so what the hell) but I notice he uses the term "afro celt". This has puzzled me since I heard it in Show of Hands' "Roots" -
"When the Indians, Asians, Afro-Celts It's in their blood, below their belt They're playing and dancing all night long So what have they got right that we've got wrong?"
I am well aware that there is a group called the Afro Celt Sound System. In their own words -
"Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 as a collaborative effort between traditional African and Celtic musicians and several respected figures from the UK music scene."
They hardly constitue a cultural group in the same way as Indians or Asians (who are hardly monolithic cultural groups anyway).
A little research shows that there is, indeed, an Afro-Celt culture. It has its origins in North Carolina with a fusion between Scottish emmigrants from the Highland clearances and their African slaves in the eighteenth century.